[nagdu] Did anyone watch the home makeover show yesterday. thefamily has a guide dog and are diabetics, but they didn't go into any of that at all.

Cindy Ray cindyray at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 17:12:12 UTC 2010


Actually, while in the first show they didn't get it completely right by any 
stretch, they worked with one of the centers on some of that stuff. Then, of 
course, they doubtless took license. It sells better to have the family be 
pitiable, much to my distress. I am sure curious about the dog digging a 
hole in the ground in harness. That is weird. I wonder what the details of 
that are?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:50 AM
Subject: [nagdu] Did anyone watch the home makeover show yesterday. 
thefamily has a guide dog and are diabetics,but they didn't go into any of 
that at all.


Good morning all:

This was the second time that ABC Extreme Home Make Over did a  home make 
over for a blind family.

The got some stuff right, but again I have some questions, some about the 
family, and some about what ABC did?

Question about the Anderson family.  Now these are questions I may right to 
the show about, but mostly they are pondering in my head to share with all.

The Anderson Family

1.  They are from what I understand and family who gives support to other 
people with disabilities.  One of my questions is are they members of either 
the NFB or another organization, trained in all of this from being in the 
field, or just decided to do it all by themselves.

2.  They never went into there diabetes, since both of them are diabetic, 
like do they use anything like the prodigy voice or the solo meter to test 
the blood, the team never asked that either.

3. The husband has a guide dog, but at one point when they were talking to 
the family, my husband said that the dog was in harness and digging a whole 
in the ground. WHAT is that about?

4.  If they are having problems with the traffic lights, then why didn't 
they just contact the town or the legislative body in there area and get it 
fixed.  If they are a company or business out there helping other blind and 
disabled people shouldn't they be doing this for themselves first before 
helping others to do it.

ABC:  This the 2nd time in 8 Seasons that they have focused or help and 
blind family, and still haven't gotten it correctly.

1.  The technology.  They didn't say where they got the technology, the 
didn't go to NFB or the other organization for advice, they just went to the 
technology stores that have technology for the blind.

2. And Electric Cane, now come on, do we if we were taught properly to use 
our canes, do we need a cane that vibrates when we are near something. They 
are diabetic, they can have neuropathy and not be able to tell if they are 
vibrating, etc.

3. The stove they got, yes she got burned many times, again diabetic, they 
got them the counter tops and wall oven, but they didn't label it or at 
least put raised dots on the stove/oven.


To many other issues there.

I don't know if the NFB members ever wrote the first time to ABC and got 
responses on these issues.

But I plan on starting a writing campaign.  Let me know if you are 
interested.
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